Meet McKenna Grace From The Handmaid's Tale

She's Played the Younger Version of Several Famous Characters

Grace has carved a bit of a highly-specific niche for herself over the past several years: playing the flashback younger versions of adult blonde women in high-profile movies and TV shows. She's played young Caroline Forbes on The Vampire Diaries, young Emma Swan on Once Upon a Time, young Tonya Harding in I, Tonya, young Theo on The Haunting of Hill House, young Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel, and, most recently, young Sabrina Spellman in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

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She Has Some Serious Musical Talents

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If you check out Grace's Instagram, you can see her love for music all over the place, such as a video from April where she shared an original song she wrote. According to Refinery29, she also used music as a way to keep the mood up when filming the dark scenes for The Handmaid's Tale: she brought her ukelele on set and played for everyone between takes!

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She Loves Helping Animals

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Over the past several years, Grace, who is a proud vegetarian, has participated in several campaigns for animal rights and ethical treatment. In 2016, she starred in a PSA for PETA about the dangers of leaving animals in hot cars.

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She Appreciates the Best Part of Girl Scouts

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Although her film career has meant that she hasn't been able to participate in full-fledged troop activities, Grace loves the most iconic part of being a Girl Scout: cookies!

"I don't participate in a lot of the activities. I probably would only have the cookie-selling badge. I sell cookies whenever cookie season comes, but I'm working a lot, so I don't get to do a lot of the activities. But I do like selling cookies on set, and I get to sell a lot of them," she told ScreenRant in 2020.

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She's Always Wanted to Be an Actress

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For Grace, her dreams of being on the big screen have pretty much always been a part of her. "I wanted to be like Shirley Temple. I'd seen all of the Shirley Temple movies, and I wanted to be one of those kids on the Pee-wee Herman Show," she told Collider in 2018.

Still, she later revealed, she values the "normal" kid stuff just as much as getting to play superheroes and shoot big movies. "I'm always having fun. Whenever I get time off and I get to go back to L.A., my dad and I hang out. We just recently got a chess board, so we've been playing chess a lot. We watch scary movies together. Well, not my mom because she gets scared. We just play and hang out. I get to see my friends. When I'm working, my best friend and I call each other on FaceTime. I play with stuffed animals, all the time. My parents say that, even though I'm working in a grown up world, it's important to stay myself."

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She's a Big Fan of the '70s

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"The 70s is already my favourite era," Grace told ScreenRant. "I really like the music and the movies. I really love the 70s already, so it was fun to get to shoot in a time period that I love. I already knew a bit, but it's good getting to learn more, because I do love the 70s."

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